On College And Life: For Parents

📌 FREE Tools For Parents To Raise Digital Age Children: 
https://futurestrong.org/2022/07/21/free-resources-for-personal-development-wellness-and-stress-management-for-digital-age-parents/

📌 Parenting Teens: 
https://www.parents.com/parenting/better-parenting/teenagers/

📌 Dealing With Peer Pressure:
https://www.bluecrestrc.com/dealing-with-peer-pressure/

📌 How to Get Your Teenager to Talk:
https://futurestrong.org/2018/02/02/how-to-get-your-teenager-to-talk/

📌 What Is the Difference Between Social and Binge Drinking?
https://definingwellness.com/resources/social-drinking-vs-binge-drinking/

📌 The Scoop On Colleges And College Life:
https://blog.collegevine.com

📌 List Of Parental Control Tools For Digital Devices:
https://futurestrong.org/2022/05/03/a-comprehensive-list-of-parental-control-tools-for-digital-devices-for-parents-of-children-and-teens/

Financial Aid And Scholarship

https://futurestrong.org/2023/06/01/free-resources-for-financial-aid-scholarships-for-teens-and-college-students-along-with-deadlines/

Teen Audio & Podcast Recommendations

• https://storycorps.org/stories/why-do-you-like-space-so-much-a-nasa-engineer-talks-with-his-space-obsessed-nephew/
• https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510321/wow-in-the-world
• Podcasts Teens Are Listening To: https://www.screenagersmovie.com/blog/22-podcasts-kids-and-teens-are-listening-to-right-now
• NPR Podcast Recommendations: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/06/708804022/student-podcasts-for-our-contest-we-got-thousands-of-them
• NPR Best Teen Podcasts: https://www.npr.org/2020/05/27/862792242/best-of-the-best-here-are-the-finalists-in-the-npr-student-podcast-challenge
• Brains On: https://www.brainson.org/
• https://stories.audible.com/discovery
• https://stownpodcast.org/chapter/1
• Listen To Any Radio In The US: http://youarelistening.to/
• Listen To Any Radio In The World: http://radio.garden/visit/johns-creek-ga/7OhIzAlp
• NPR Student Podcast Challenge — Audio shows produced by middle, high school, and college students across the US.
• Radio Garden — An interactive 3D globe allowing teens to explore live radio stations worldwide in real time.
• Brains On! Podcast — An award-winning science podcast for curious kids and teens.

Quit Smoking, Vaping And Drug Use

📌 Click HERE.

How to Start a Business as a Student – A Step-by-Step Guide

Click HERE to find out the risks and rewards of being a student entrepreneur. This free resource is provided by StudyCorgi.com.

Start A Business Guide © studycorgi.com

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Find Tutoring And Internship Jobs

📌 Click HERE.

On Mindfulness And Mental Wellbeing 

📌 Play a Game To Walk In The Woods:
http://a-way-to-go.com/

📌 Once In A While Do Nothing:
http://www.donothingfor2minutes.org

📌 Travel the World 3D:
https://www.airpano.com/360photo/Taj-Mahal-India/

📌 On Mindfulness And Optimism:
http://teenshealth.org/en/teens/optimism.html

📌 Going To College With A Mental Health Condition:
http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/whats-your-plan-college-mental-health-disorder

📌 Teen Mental Health Literacy:
https://mentalhealthliteracy.org/

📌 Change To Chill:
HERE — Interactive stress-management, mindfulness guides, and resilience-building tools designed specifically for teens.

On Tech

📌 A first person account from teenagers on cellphones and their relationship with them:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614934/teenagers-without-cell-phones/

📌 On the science behind our love for social media and selfies:
https://futurestrong.org/2018/11/02/the-science-behind-our-love-for-social-media-and-selfies/

On Humor

📌 How Memes are helping Teens to Cope:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gen-z-uses-memes-cope-idea-world-war-iii-n1113086

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Play Instruments

📌 https://www.virtualmusicalinstruments.com

Write Poetry

📌 https://www.poetrygames.org/

Solve A Riddle

1. A video game console and one video game together cost $110. The game console costs $100 more than the video game. How much does the video game cost?
2. It takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets. How long does it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets?
3. How many of each type of animal did Moses take on the ark?
4. Your mother has three children: April, May, and . . . what’s the third child’s name?
5. A horse meets a priest, who then disappears. Where does this take place?
6. What is one common question that you can never honestly answer “yes”?

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Reading Resources

📌 Book & Movie Recommendations for Teens:
https://futurestrong.org/project/teen-book-and-movie-recommendations/

📌 Library of Congress: 
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/

Coding Resources

📌 https://futurestrong.org/project/coding-games-and-game-design-ideas-for-children/

📌 Quick, Draw! by Google — An interactive AI game where players doodle while a neural network tries to guess what they are drawing.

📌 GeoGuessr — A geographic discovery game that drops players into Google Street View locations around the world to test their geography skills.

📌 Code.org Hour of Code — Free, self-paced coding tutorials and game-building modules suitable for beginners.

Do Something Great

📌 Free, Online Growth mindset course by Stanford University: 
https://www.perts.net/orientation/cg17

📌 Give a micro-loan to someone who needs it to start a business: 
https://www.kiva.org/

📌 Find out how many years you’ve got left: 
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html

Navigate History

📌 http://www.whatwasthere.com/

📌 https://www.mission-us.org

On Inspiration

📌 Amazing Visual Representations of Data: 
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-drake-equation/

📌 A Wise 22 Year Old’s essay:
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2012/05/27/keegan-the-opposite-of-loneliness/

📌 A story of inspiration from a special needs child:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-teen-nonverbal-autism-spelling-blog-20200103-bhk5zwz35rbm5k4mkkwih4lxem-story.html

📌 Learn To Think: Data, Information And Knowledge: 
https://informationisbeautiful.net/

Play Some Games And Sharpen Your Focus

• http://prism.etc.cmu.edu
• http://www.whizkidgames.com/?game=rongetsdressed
• Geo Guesser: Free Geographic Discovery game: https://www.geoguessr.com/
• The Free Classic Frogger Game: https://froggerclassic.appspot.com/
• Quick Draw, Doodle To Refocus On Important Tasks: https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/#
• Doodle And Fast Drawing: https://www.autodraw.com/

Test Prep for SAT, ACT

• https://www.bwseducationconsulting.com/handouts.php
• ACT Free Online Test Prep: https://academy.act.org/
• Free Online Test Prep: http://www.afpls.org/ecampus/2158
• Free Introductory Online Test Prep: https://www.kaptest.com/sat/free/events
• PAID Prep Classes: http://www.act.org/content/act/en/products-and-services/the-act/test-preparation.html
• Khan Academy Digital SAT Prep — Official, free practice partnership with the College Board offering full-length adaptive tests and skill practice.
• OpenStax Textbooks — Free, peer-reviewed AP and college-level textbooks in math, science, and humanities.
• Fiveable AP Study Guides — Free AP study guides, practice questions, and cram charts created by teachers and students.

Resources for AP Students

📌 The How to Guide To Surviving AP English Literature:
https://study.com/learn/literature.html#additional-reading

📌 https://marcolearning.com/

📌 https://app.fiveable.me/

On Navigating History

• http://www.whatwasthere.com/
• https://www.mission-us.org
• Historical Children’s Literature: https://ufdc.ufl.edu/baldwin/all/thumbs
• The Web Chronology Project: http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron/Glossary/Glossary.html

Solve A Riddle: ANSWERS!!

1. A video game console and one video game together cost $110. The game console costs $100 more than the video game. How much does the video game cost?
Answer: If the game cost $10, then the console cost $10 + $110, or $120. The correct response is $5 ($5 + $105 = $110).
2. It takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets. How long does it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets?
Answer: 5 minutes. The rate stays the same, regardless of the number of machines at work.
3. How many of each type of animal did Moses take on the ark?
Answer: None, since Noah built the ark. This riddle is so common in psychological studies that the effect it illustrates is called “The Moses Illusion”.
4. Your mother has three children: April, May, and . . . what’s the third child’s name?
Answer: Your name. NOTE: This is a variation of the Moses Illusion mentioned above, in which the context primes a quick response that happens to be wrong. Be prepared for an avalanche of “June” responses.
5. A horse meets a priest, who then disappears. Where does this take place?
Answer: A chessboard. NOTE: Unlike “Moses Illusion” riddles, the challenge here is to provide a context for the action. Did you guesss “a fairy tale,” or “Middle Earth,” or some variation of a fantasy story? The actual solution is both simple and prosaic.
6. What is one common question that you can never honestly answer “yes”?
Answer: “Are you asleep yet?” NOTE: Don’t assume that there are any number of possible answers. ;-)

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